From Rav Claudia's Shabbat Toldot Message:

"In this week’s Torah portion, Toldot, we begin the story of Jacob and Esau. Sons of Rebecca (Rivkah), rivals even before their birth, two brothers born into a relationship of conflict.

Already before they are born, these two brothers are imagined as opposites, each drawn toward a different world. Rivkah feels the pain of her two sons fighting inside her, struggling against one another, and wonders about her own existence.

I have always grappled with our rabbinic tradition’s interpretations of Jacob and Esau. Even before their birth, the Torah imagines them struggling with one another in utero, and the midrash clearly establishes one as good and the other as wicked."

WELCOMING SHABBAT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13

6:00pm Kabbalat Shabbat with TBZ (in person and online: Zoom) 

Come bring each week to a close and start Shabbat together in community!

Join us for spirited services with song, kavanah (intention) and celebration.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14

9:00am Torah Study (in person)

10:00am Shabbat Morning Service/Avi Krakower Bar Mitzvah (in person and online: Zoom)

Spend Shabbat morning in community and celebrate Avi Krakower becoming bar mitzvah.

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Kiddush is sponsored by the Krakower family in honor of Avi's bar mitzvah.

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The TBZ community extends condolences to Ellen Brodsky, Ted Rybeck, and Mia and Emma Brodsky Rybeck following the death of Ellen's father, Julian A. Brodsky, at the age of 93.

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